Sunday, November 25, 2007

1. PRO FOOTBALL; Underdog Back Under Center...highway to San Jose State. He set team passing records there, then went to the Canadian Football League, where he won a Grey Cup championship with the Calgary Stampeders in 1998. The San Francisco 49ers lured him close to home again, and he was soon...December 16, 2006 - By JOHN BRANCH - Sports - 750 words

2. PRO FOOTBALL; Life Shaped by Tragedy, Built on Resolve...college. When the N.F.L. did not want him, he played for five seasons in the Canadian Football League and won the 1998 Grey Cup. When the 49ers, the Browns and the Lions no longer wanted him as a starter, he found a spot as a backup in Philadelphia...January 5, 2007 - By JERÉ LONGMAN - Sports - 1388 words

3. PLUS: C.F.L.; Late Touchdowns Give Lions Grey CupRobert Drummond and Damon Allen scored fourth-quarter touchdowns to power the British Columbia Lions to a 28-26 Grey Cup victory yesterday over the Montreal Alouettes in Calgary, Alberta, giving the Lions the Canadian Football League championship.November 27, 2000 - 90 words

4. PLUS: PRO FOOTBALL; Stampeders Capture Fifth Grey Cup...Calgary Stampeders upset the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 27-19, before a crowd of 65,225 yesterday in Montreal to win the Grey Cup. The Stampeders, who went 8-10 in the regular season, won their fifth Canadian Football League championship. They...November 26, 2001 - 134 words

6. NEXT STOP | BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL; A Town Where All the World is a Bar...clink of bottles -- not a D.J. -- provide the soundtrack; grey hair and what in the United States would be underage youth share...serves a limited but creative menu, like mulled wine, or a cup of squash, mozzarella and chicken soup (3.50 reais), a...October 28, 2007 - By SETH KUGEL - Travel - 1214 words7. SPORTS BRIEFING: PRO FOOTBALL; C.F.L. QUARTERBACK VISITS JETSRicky Ray, who led the Edmonton Eskimos to the Grey Cup championship in the Canadian Football League, will visit the Jets today and could be considered a backup quarterback candidate...February 12, 2004 - By Judy Battista - Sports - 112 words 8. Players Banished From N.F.L. Find Refuge in Canada...the league's championship, the Grey Cup. Williams quit the Dolphins before...businessmen. A marketing push and a Grey Cup victory in 2004 boosted average attendance...Argonauts' vice president who has won six Grey Cups as a coach and executive, sees...May 24, 2006 - By JOHN BRANCH - Front Page - 1357 words 9. PLUS: C.F.L. -- Grey Cup; Toronto Captures 2d Straight Title...Saskatchewan for its second straight Grey Cup, the championship of the Canadian...in the third quarter, including a Cup record 95-yard kickoff return by...crowd of 60,431, third-largest in Grey Cup history, saw Flutie throw touchdown...November 17, 1997 - 201 words 10. PLUS: FOOTBALL -- GREY CUP; Hamilton Captures The Championship...open the fourth quarter -- to give the Hamilton Tiger-Cats a 32-21 victory over the Calgary Stampeders to win the Grey Cup in Vancouver. McManus, who completed 22 of 34 passes for 347 yards, was the outstanding player in the C.F.L. championship...November 29, 1999 - 142 words

I watched the game with my father until he fell asleep just after Lenny Kravitz’s highly misunderstood cover of ‘The Guess Who’s’ American Woman – a song as much misogynistic as knee jerkingly anti-American – during halftime.American woman, said get awayAmerican woman, listen what I sayDon’t come hangin’ around my doorDon’t wanna see your face no moreI don’t need your war machinesI don’t need your ghetto scenesColoured lights can hypnotizeSparkle someone else’s eyesNow woman, get away from meAmerican woman, mama let me be.

I then slipped off into the night. I understand from Google that the Saskatchewan Rough Riders won. Winnipeg fans may find some solace in the fact that ‘The Guess Who’ originated in Winterpeg.

“What were they smoking?” asks the cover of the current issue of Fortune magazine. Underneath the headline are photos of recently deposed Wall Street titans, captioned with the staggering sums they managed to lose.Skip to next paragraph

The answer, of course, is that they were high on the usual drug — greed. And they were encouraged to make socially destructive decisions by a system of executive compensation that should have been reformed after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, but wasn’t.

In a direct sense, the carnage on Wall Street is all about the great housing slump.

This slump was both predictable and predicted. “These days,” I wrote in August 2005, “Americans make a living selling each other houses, paid for with money borrowed from the Chinese. Somehow, that doesn’t seem like a sustainable lifestyle.” It wasn’t.